Funny comments received while riding

Here are mine (in no particular order);

"Call the police. Someone stole half this guy's bike!!"
"Can I have a ride?"
"Is that hard?"
"FREAK!!"
(someone singing the "Circus Polka" out the window of their car while my
buddy and I were out riding)
"Nice."
"Do you ever fall?"
"Go back to the circus, you sideshow freak!"
"Dude, your bike's missing, like, a lot of stuff man."
"That's so cool."
"I would SSSSOO fall on my a**!" (I've gotten that one 3 times so far.)

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I was out riding in a local state park this past Satuday when a man and
his son rode by on mountain B***s. The father said to his son.
"See that's what happens when you forget to lock up your bicycle"

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one on one: I like the way you censored bikers. ( I know I said the "B"
word. dont report me for foul language! 😉 )

I have gotten a few like, "Doesnt that hurt your balls?" I respond to
that with, it used to, but then I got castrated, so its all good."
Another good one is, "Can you actually ride that thing!?" (this is
shortly after they see me hop off of a picnic table I just hopped onto,
and dismounted gracefully!)
One of my all-time favorites would have to be, "Why did you take your
bike apart? (this coming from a guy who was being COMPLETELY and UTTERLY
serious!)

there have been a few, and Im sure as I get into town to ride some
street, they will get more common, and infinitely more stupid. but what
can you expect from a community that is completely unfamiliar with our
chosen sport?

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I get, like I'm sure everyone else does, "DON'T FALL!" I respond to that
by turnig around and riding really fast towards them, turn, dismount,
ask "off what?" get back on, and go really fast back where I was going.

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the general public are actualy an army of psycological, if not pysical
clones, mainly due to there entire experience of life coming from
telivision.
as such they are only capable of a small number of responses to any
given stilmuls,
its quite funny realy,
i'm glad i'm not one of them.

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evilewan said:

*the general public are actualy an army of psycological, if not
pysical clones, mainly due to there entire experience of life coming
from telivision.
as such they are only capable of a small number of responses to any
given stilmuls,
its quite funny realy,
i'm glad i'm not one of them. *

Unless you never try to be clever or funny or make any kind of comment
you probably are one of them. I was reading Douglas adam's book (The
Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul) and there was a thing that made me think
about the where's your other wheel comment. It was where the lead
character meets someone and tells her he is a detective and she says
something like what do people say to that, and he asks what do you mean,
and she says she has a friend who plays a double bass and when ever
people see him strugling to get through a door or something they always
say, "I bet you wish you played a piccilo". I think that most of the
time people are just trying to be friendly, or a bit clever, having no
idea how repetitive their remark is to someone who hears it all the
time. That's why I try to respond with something that may be no more
clever but at least friendly. 🙄

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It cannot be denied that only the tinest minority of the General Public
will encounter a passing unicyclist in the street or on the trails, it
certainly never happened to me in the 27 years I lived before I went to
juggling club.

In fetes, theme parks or in places like Covent Garden or Bath it's a
different story. Although the performing unicyclists are there for a
very different reason, seeing one there was still enough to send a
"WHOA" shockwave through me and I'd run over to watch with mouth wide
open.

And if I ever did encounter a unicyclist in the street/trails, no doubt
I would have had the same reaction and would have at least said
something. Something sensible, I'd want to know more (who taught you to
ride?) as I did have a slight ambition to learn to ride...

Fast forward to today; now I'm a unicyclist and I go street riding once
a week around Croydon with a couple of friends, and encounter the
General Public staring at us, with the occasional comment or two.

To sum it up: members of the General Public seeing a unicyclist in the
street/trails will be shocked to some extent, the result being they
don't quite know what to say or do. And usually their IQ will drop a
gear and their shock will be released as a potentially silly comment. In
most cases they don't really mean to be rude.

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evilewan said:

*the general public are actualy an army of psycological, if not
pysical clones, mainly due to there entire experience of life coming
from telivision.
as such they are only capable of a small number of responses to any
given stilmuls,
its quite funny realy,
i'm glad i'm not one of them. *

This is a bunch of whooey.

Many people watch too much television, myself included. But I'm not so
smug, in this respect at least ( 🙂 ), to think that the members of the
so called "general public" don't engage in a vast array of activities
which are unusual, fascinating, requiring of skill, concentration, and
intellect, and which are not unicycling. Nor is it the case, as implied
by gkmac's post, that we, despite being unicyclists don't sometimes
react to these other activities in manners similar to how we are reacted
to when out on the street.

Respectfully,
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ

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I got a pretty funny comment today...first time I've heard this one
anyway. In this case it was an oncoming jogger who said:

"Whoa! That must have been some crash if that's all that's left."

I responded with something fairly lame, like: "Well, you salvage what
you can and move on..."

Ride on!

Jerry

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Yeh that stupidist one was the "Can you actually ride that thing?" when
they obviusly can see u riding it while there saying it, what are these
people stupid?

Trev

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Over several years of riding many hours per week, I can only recall two
genuinely amusing comments, though many, many others have tried with
comments that they thought were funny, but which in fact were nothing of
the kind 🙂

The first was from a young black guy looking very laid back, draped on a
bus stop bench. Seeing me approach he lazily pulled his legs out of the
way- 'Hey, man. Why make things hard for yourself?'

The second was on a beautiful summer evening as I rode into town and
passed a small group of young ladies- 'lovely evening for it' one of
them quipped as I rode by.

But were more to do with context and timing than content, but they were
a real refreshing change from the usual 'your wheels missing', car horn
pipping etc.

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the Muni that really fires him up."

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When i was riding around one time some kid asked me if i could ride a
wheelie. I said that i couldnt, it was to hard.

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Me and my bro were riding down the street.

A Jr Highschool had just been let go at roughly that time, so we were
passing all those kids.

many were intrigued, impressed, a few told us we were show offs......

One girl goes, 'You guys are gay'

Something about punching a 12 year old girl in the face...it wouldn't go
over too well....but I bet she would watch she said from then on!

Not to mention she would promptly beat me up after that 🙁

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doofe said:

*
One of my all-time favorites would have to be, "Why did you take
your bike apart? (this coming from a guy who was being COMPLETELY and
UTTERLY serious!)

*

i always thought that if you were to take your B*ke apart you would just
end up with a recumbent unicyle.

PS i bet if you do it just right you can ride a B*ke as if it were a
giraffe.

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Seen it done a the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal... Well, it was
on tv from the festival...

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onewheeldave said:

* The first was from a young black guy looking very laid back, draped
on a bus stop bench. Seeing me approach he lazily pulled his legs out
of the way- 'Hey, man. Why make things hard for yourself?' *

That's pretty good. I actually did laugh out loud.

David

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"PS i bet if you do it just right you can ride a B*ke as if it were a
giraffe."
yes, you can ride a bike like it is a giraffe. It is a flatland
BMX trick. I used to know the name. but I forgot it. I moved on to
another sport (hint, hint). but yes, you sit on the headtube and pedal,
eiterh forwards, or backwards, depending on of you are holding the
handlebar grips, or the front pegs. its complicated, but VERY possible.

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i was riding in the park the other day and i saw two little kids (they
must have been about 7 or 8) playing on some swings. on of them saw me
and called out "look at thats guys b*cycle" and the other said "but its
not a whole b*cycle, it must be an Icycle"

i thought that was classic.

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I wonder what the countless numbers of people who crack a pathetic joke,
or ask a stupid question would say if they knew that there is an
internet unicycling community laughing at them, and making fun of
them....................Probably another stupid comment no doubt.

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